That’s not true. Sometimes I cause a ruckus. But it is true that I get my back up about nonsensical policies. Companies, schools, governmental agencies - they all issue over-reaching policies after over-reaching policy these days and then act as if their policy is your law. And if you don’t happen to agree, they act shocked.

“But, but … it’s a policy!” they sputter.

Call it the curse of the out of control bureaucrat, and, Lord, deliver us from them.

An example: A few years ago after school, the daughter of some friends needed to arrange a ride home later because she was going to stay late for math lab.

So she pulled out her cell phone and called home. But as she did, a hall monitor swooped in and snatched the phone from the girl’s hand.

“School policy,” the hall monitor said. “You can have the phone back when your parents come to school to claim it, and, boy, will they be mad.”

They were mad, all right, but not at their daughter, who only wanted a ride home after, not during, school. They were mad at the school for stranding the girl, and for confiscating private property.

“I can understand them not wanting phones used in class, but she just wanted a ride home,” her dad told me. “Where did common sense ever go?”

I know the answer: Right out the window in our one-size-fits-all, zero tolerance, worked up, overwrought world, that’s where.

Another recent example: A nurse at a Genesee County hospital, was reprimanded for “unprofessional” behavior because someone posted a photo on a Facebook page of her having a sliver removed in the hospital by a fellow nurse. Both were on break at the time.

The reasons for the reprimand are a bit unclear, at least to me. The hospital seems miffed about improper use of equipment and “undesirable” conduct, but also, according to a hospital statement, “that employees engaged in online media must not post proprietary hospital information.”

I can’t fathom what’s proprietary about a photo of – gasp! - someone having a sliver removed in a hospital, of all places. Nor can I figure out why hospital managers asked the nurse to take down her own Facebook page, when the photos weren’t even posted on it.